Sentences with phrase «disabled people hit»

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Millions of working people, redundant nurses desperately looking for work, disabled people in homes that Ministers have decided contain a «spare room» — all hit just at the time when prices are rising faster than wages and unemployment is rising.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, who addressed the conference, the largest of the kind in the country, said: «There can be no doubt that the disabled people have been some of those hit hardest by the Government's policies.

«Even with today's decision on severely disabled children, disabled people will still be amongst the hardest hit by the bedroom tax, with # 300 million being cut from their housing support.

Those hit hardest by the new universal credit rules will be lone parents, disabled people and couples with children who rent their home rather than have a mortgage.

«There is no doubt that disabled people have been hit hardest by a range of different cuts,» the author of the report Dr Simon Duffy says.

David Congdon, head of campaigns and policy at learning disability charity Mencap, added: «The government has a responsibility to ensure the cuts do not disproportionately impact on those people least able to afford it, yet the chancellor's focus on further welfare cuts means many disabled people will fear they will continue to be the hardest hit.

That's why in the same month that disabled people are being hit by the Bedroom Tax, 13,000 millionaires are getting a tax cut of over # 100,000.

Yet I've been deemed fit to work so I think the labour party should look at why Freud and Purnell delivered an ESA and WCA medical so bad it has caused massive concern to disabled, people, why is it labour has hit the poorest in society, Blair gave the pensioners a 75 p pension rise while delivering a 60 % pay rise and pension rise and expenseses rise to MP's.

The bedroom tax has proved highly controversial since its introduction two years ago, with opposition politicians saying disabled people and the elderly have been hardest hit.

«It was also wrong for disabled people who needed an extra room for a carer to use or to be adapted in some way to be hit».

But more importantly the study also shows how cuts to a host of benefits including disability living allowance (DLA), employment and support allowance (ESA), housing benefit and the «bedroom tax» are hitting the same group of disabled people over and over again.

Disabled people are being hit harder than most by the chancellor's measures, but there are opportunities for charities and councils to work together to transform lives, says Richard Hawkes

There is a # 9billion hit for 3.5 million disabled people over five years according to the think tank, Demos.

I think there are real opportunities in technology for disabled or disadvantaged people, and these will translate into great commercial hits.

«If everyone who had multiple repetitive [brain] hits developed CTE, we'd have millions of disabled or deceased people everywhere,» he says.

It only took a scandal blowing up in its face and getting hit with more than 20 different lawsuits, but it seems at long last, Apple will finally give people the option to disable the performance throttling that was slowing down older iPhones.